Coney Island’s Takeshi Yamada To Star On New AMC Show About Taxidermy

Takeshi Yamada, a taxidermist and one of Coney Island’s more interesting local artists, is getting a huge spotlight as he is set to star in AMC’s new competitive taxidermy show, Immortalized.

Chances are you were as confused reading those sentences as I was writing them, but yes, competitive taxidermy is apparently a thing. Well, if it wasn’t a thing, it is now thanks to AMC’s outside the box reality programming.

It should be interesting to follow the exploits of Takeshi Yamada (featured above), the local Coney Island freak-show taxidermist who takes special pride in assembling fake creatures like his disturbing two-headed baby corpses, (shudder…)

The talented Yamada works an incredible 16 hours a day and has been described as a “rogue taxidermist.” There is something beautiful and disturbing around the 50-second mark in the video above when Yamada is combing the Coney Island creek in his magical-steam-punk outfit for dead things to turn into fresh art.